In Home Care givers

The caring of elderly people at home is dependent upon having some help of various types so that they are not force into assisted living facilities.

Currently, while authorized 6 hours per week of this service, no care giver has surfaced that has those hours to spare in the Bayview/Athol area.

If anyone is interested in part time work like this, please contact me at either:bayviewherb@gmail.com or call 208-683-1294.

I will turn 80 next month, which brings up another point. An open house no host birthday party will be held at the Captain's Wheel, Saturday March 24 starting at 4 pm and ending ... Come on down.

Athol Super One

This morning's CDA Press revealed that the contractor that is building the Athol Super One has been placed in receivership and all projects have ceased.

While programed to open in Mid-March, this likely will be delayed. So close to being finished, it will still likely take some time to sort out the potential liens from sub-contractors that are sure to appear.

This could be a huge disappointment to we that usually do the 50 mile round trip to Hayden.

Anyone that has good info on this situation, please leave a comment.

Proposed Silica Mine

Silica is about the cleanest element in nature. Glass is made from it and it doesn't tend to be dusty. There is a lot of prejudice from the far left that doesn't want any mines of any kind and horrors if you cut down a tree. Keep an open mind and know that in these times, the environment is much safer than in the bad old days.

 From my research, Bayview will not be adversely affected, contrary to the propaganda being spewed on Facebook by well known leftist radicals. Other uses are in concrete. You see, Silica is just sand. .


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Care Givers Needed

Every where you look home care givers are working to keep seniors in their own homes. One of the the  premier agencies in the North Idaho area is Comfort Keepers. Unfortunately, their are more needy seniors than care givers. If you or someone you know would like to explore this field, please call Kat Vercruyssen, owner.

Phone 208-765-9511

katvercruyssen@comfortkeepers.com

Their office is located at 820 E. Best Ave, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho 83814

Food for thought

Flu vs Vaccines

There is an on going debate about the safety of the various flu vaccines. One fact jumps out at us this week. Well, two. One this is a killer flu unknown in recent years. Not since the outbreak during WW 1, have so many died from the flu.

Secondly, no deaths at all have been attributed to the vaccine. So it's at least twenty deaths so far, compared to none from the prevention shots.

I have received a flu shot every year for the last 15 years. Whether connected or not, I have not only avoided the flu, but haven't had a cold during that period either.

Currently with the flu season only half over, over 2o deaths have occurred, mostly in young people. Just this morning a 10 year old died at a hockey tournament in Connecticut, so suddenly that he didn't feel sick before traveling.

This strain, actually two such strains have been active in every state except Hawaii. If you haven't been vaccinated yet, I urge you to but aside the rumors and false information. Protect yourself and family NOW!

Looking Back

I just ran across one of my better efforts that I wrote back in 215. Here it is:

http://bayviews.blogspot.com/2015/01/72-virgins.html

WTF re: VA

I normally have nothing but good things to say about the care givers at this fine institution. Today, this isn't about the caregivers, it's about the jerks that populate the bureaucracy.

I snagged my side on a sharp counter top while getting up to go to the bathroom during the night. After a couple of days it began to show signs of infection. So I called my clinic in Sandpoint, only to be told my PA had quit to go back to private practice and they weren't accepting appointments at this time.

So, since I had some errands in Coeur d'Alene, I dropped into the VA clinic on Emma, only to be told that since I was a patient of Sandpoint, they were not interested in helping me.

Now, the only option given to me was a three hour round trip to the ER in Spokane. Damned if I do, damned if I don't. Suddenly I am without a primary provider, but no policy is in place to provide walk in care for a patient that wasn't theirs.(CDA)

Bottom line, I have other injuries and at my age, (80) I cannot handle a three hour round trip to and back from Spokane.

That the bureaucracy in Spokane cannot or will not provide backup with a huge clinic in Coeur d'Alene suggests a very large disconnect on the management side. My congressman, once again will hear from me. This is Bullshit.

Winter From Hell

I remember a year after 1995 that had much more snow, I just can't remember which one it was. The key here is that I was much younger then and more able to cope with the difficulties.

This year wouldn't have been all that bad if a freezing rain were not sandwiched between two back to back storm systems, causing a thick layer of ice to form inside the compacted foot of the white stuff.

I was trapped for five days, with both doors unable to open wide enough to get out. Fortunately, when I put the word out that I needed help, Ralph Jones, owner of Ralph's Coffee house rode to the rescue. He shoveled my back entrance clear, shoveled my car out then took my accumulated garbage out, went to the store for me and ran other errands that were critical. That we have a man of that stature here in Bayview, Idaho is more than outstanding.

The problem was exacerbated, because Frontier Telephone Company has consistently missed installation appointments, so I couldn't even call 911 if needed. Now if it just would warm up enough to clear the roads, we would be in high clover.

Coal Awards

I have two coal in the stockings awards this year, both commercial.

Jack-In-The Box for using a gay wedding to sell burgers.

The second is Taco John's firing of their largest stock holder, founder and president for making the obvious observation that NFL teams kneeling for the national anthem was cutting revenue. (Papa John's is a major advertiser for NFL games.)

Political correctness run amok. 

Bayview wintering

For those of you that are smugly sitting in the south in hot weather, shut yer pie holes.

For everyone else, while Bayview is still getting heavy snow, the streets are passable. Up above? Don't go there. It's hard to tell how much snow we have, because it continues to pack down. I'd guess about 8 or 9 inches. Athol and the other uplands, much more. Roads will be impassable until it changes to rain... If it does.

Stay tunes and stay warm Hope we don't lose power from snow loads With this wet snow, Our area will increase in population if we get to count snow men.

Sexual Wars

I do not have a problem with sexual predators and or powerful people being brought to justice as long as that is what is going on...Not!

An allegation is now enough to ruin a reputation or career. One wonders how long it will take for enterprising females to use this as a ruse to settle grudges that are not sexual at all.

Fired from a job? He propositioned me. Guilty. 

It is true that powerful men with large egos many times will take advantage of a woman. It is, however, and not one word about this in the media, true that many women are drawn sexually toward powerful men. To some women power is a turn on. Not one word. Not one.

Backing a woman up against a wall groping them is crude and unforgivable. Sexual innuendos is a gray area as it is a subjective sort of issue. Flirting involves some of the milder forms of this.

So to sum up, I am never going to sexually molest a woman, nor grope one. I will stick to the tried and true fondling, and only those that I am confident appreciate it. 

Spokesman-Review Divorces North Idaho

If you are a subscriber to the Spokesman-Review and have received a notice that home delivery will cease at the end of December, or if you are a subscriber that did not received that notice please respond anyway to the divorce the S/R has instituted against North Idaho, by agreeing to have your name added to a petition.

meyer6420@roadrunner.com.

 

Also, call the Coeur d'Alene Press to subscribe. 208-664-8176

Losing Caregiver

Although my caregiver recently moved to a new home in Priest River, it came as a shock yesterday when she gave me her two weeks notice. Intellectually, it was expected. emotionally, I was stunned.

Not having contacted by Rescare, I'm feeling a bit abandoned. I didn't realize how dependent I have become on this vital service. I currently receive 16 hours monthly from the VA and 4 additional hours from the Area Agency on Aging.

If you or someone you know is an accredited home care person that has room for 20 hours per month, I'd like to hear from you. Until the new cell tower is operational sometime next spring, I cannot receive  phone calls at home. I can, however, return messages from either Facebook or this blog.

Herb Huseland
Bayview, Idaho

Irony

It is common knowledge that one of the most dangerous places to become injured if you are a senior, is falling while in the shower.

Ever the exception to the rule, I managed to fall into the shower. You ask, how could that happen. Only a person that marches to a different drummer can do this. This feat of gymnastics occurred last Sunday evening.

I have a "just in case" bath seat for if I lose my balance while showering. This narrows the usable space in the tub to about three feet X three feet. In facing my sink, I managed to stumble backward and when my legs contacted the tub, flipped over backward. I ended up scrunched up with my feet way up above me.

After several minutes of struggling it was obvious I had no leverage. Finally I tossed the tub seat out of the dry tub and was able then to crawl out. Don't try this at home. Aside from a very sore tail bone, I ended up just fine. I will have to remember though, my bath tub is out to get me.

Shocked, Dismayed

A letter from the Spokesman-Review arrived a couple of days ago. Figuring it was a bill, I set it aside. When I finally opened it, it was a notice that rural delivery would cease January 1, 2018.

I have been a subscriber for the last 28 years, here in Kootenai County. I will sorely miss getting this paper at my door faithfully every day. My delivery team has given me exceptional service here in Bayview. If Kootenai County is too rural, then apparently all of us in North Idaho are going to be shunned.

My carrier told  me last year that when the Handle Extra was discontinued, his route in Athol and Bayview lost 60 subscribers. I wrote for the Handle for five years, writing about local people and events.

When the paper forced retirement on to just about every veteran reporter, plus Huckleberries on line, I predicted that the new editor was the acting funeral director. Now, with the home delivery cancelled, I'm sure the paper is in a death spiral.

Global Cooling

According to a quote in the Coeur d'Alene Press by Carrie Hugo of the Bureau of Land Management, we are being inundated by record numbers of Bald Eagles. Carrie and her cohorts have counted 314 as of last Thursday, a new record set in 2011 of 273. Yet to come is the peak of the Kokanee harvest which is still three weeks away.

The BLM as cited early freezing over of Canadian lakes, forcing the majestic birds south this year. Somehow I don't think this is a ringing endorsement of Global Warming.

Here in Bayview,Idaho, we are seeing the early spawn well under way with the shoreline redds to appear later. Our first sightings of Bald Eagles is well underway with the bulk being The Granite Creek spawn which feeds the hatchery gathering place at Sullivan Springs.

Since the last Ice Age began it's retreat about 10,000 years ago our world has been warming. It was only about 40 years ago during the seventies, that climatologists were concerned about global cooling. Folks, along with the spotted owl, and many other extremist views, this is just as likely to serve the hidden purposes being which the Sierra Club, from high up in San Francisco high rises think they know all of what is good and bad about the way we live.

The sky is not falling, oceans will once again inundate low lying reefs and wet lands, because the natural ebb and flow of nature does it's thing. That we could build huge cities near sea level has always been  a gamble for people with short memories.

Sexual Harrassment

Let me begin with the fact that I am 79 years old and obviously a product of another generation. Having said that, While in high school in the 1950's none of this took place.

But when entering the adult dating scene, a different standard prevailed. Sexually suggestive remarks were research into the degree of receptiveness of our overtures. To be clear, their is a huge difference between verbal flirting and physical touching. Between the sexes, verbal byplay has been and still is, acceptable.

If a guy goes too far, a raised middle finger and perhaps other verbal retaliation usually  solves the problem.

The blurred division between what I have described, is that the men in a power position, with employer/employee relationships is an entirely different thing. That involves coercion an unacceptable form of at best, making a woman's life difficult, to rape itself. The casting couch has been a standing joke in Hollywood for as long as I have lived. It you wanted to climb the ladder of success, you had to first climb a producer.

There is though, another category. One that places a woman in a position of pursuing powerful men. If you don't believe this happens you need to stop smoking funny weed., Sex, as a tool has long been a tactic of many women. I am not talking about power here, just human nature.

Good riddance! This needed to stop and apparently it is in that process. Unfortunately, we have drifted into the middle ground where flirting is now outlawed. There will be unintended consequences  from the over reaction to male/female  flirting. God help us all.

Federal Reserve Policy

There is  a constant barrage of information about the lowest interest rates ever. All of it positive. Home mortgages below 4%. But for every heads there is a tail. The other side of the coin.

Two negative results of super low real estate loans. People can afford a much higher price and the market responds with doubling down on prices of homes.

But the most severe hit is seniors that have invested all of their lives in bonds and equities designed for income, rather than growth. Thousands of senior savers had their retirements destroyed when the income from investments disappeared.

This is what happens when politics take over from a balanced economy. Watch when the interest rates finally go up what happens to the inflated equities that will suddenly deflate and leave people buried in loans that will exceed values.

Veteran's Day

I cannot remember a year where we veterans were honored, as we were this year. I don't think that has happened since the 1940's and the armistice with both Japan and Germany. Why it happened this year, I have no idea.

There is a huge backlog of wounded vets from the last several years of war. This undeclared war has lasted way longer that either the first or second world war and maybe the total of the two.

While the administration brags about the "Choice" program, the funds have quietly been used up and not replaced. The VA system is overloaded and crashing since the politicians are bragging about the new programs, they neglect to tell us that none of these programs are currently funded.

In addition to these young warriors, there are those like me, age 79 that are dependent on ever increasing senior care and the problems that occur with age.

Thank you folks for your loyalty for us but we need more. Please contact your congressman or senator, or both and ask why these programs remain unfunded.

Here in Bayview, the Captain's Wheel Resort opened it's wallet to feed any veteran that wanted dinner, FREE. Folks that is a  huge cash drain, but they cheerfully did it anyway. Bless you, "Wheel."